Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care.

ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 pandemic has not affected the population evenly. This must be acknowledged when it comes to understanding the Covid-19 death toll and answering the question of how many life years have been lost. We use level of geriatric care to account for variation in remaining life expectancy among individuals that died during 2020. Based on a linkage of administrative registers, we estimate remaining life expectancy stratified by age, sex, and care status using an incidence-based multistate model and analyze the number of years of life lost (YLL) during 2020 in Sweden. Our results show that remaining life expectancy between individuals with and without care differs substantially. More than half of all Covid-19 deaths had a remaining life expectancy lower than 4 years. Yet, in a 1-year per

SUBMITTER: Ebeling M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9488891 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature